Hall v. Davis

This was a petition for partition of about seven hundred acres of land, in the Jackson Circuit Court, filed by William H. Davis against James H. and Mary J. Hall. A summons was issued on the 10th day of July, 1856, directed to the sheriff of Jasper county, who returns that he had served it on Mary J. Hall, and that James H. was not found. A notice of the pendency of the suit was published in the “ De Soto Farmer,” a newspaper printed in Jackson county, for four successive weeks, ending the 7th day of August, 1856. The certificate of publication was made by “ John A. Hull, editor,” and was…